1998 Photo Archive of Delta Company In Action

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Photo Archive: 1998

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Prior to 1 Oct. 2001, our unit was Co. E, 2/127th Infantry. So, obviously, the photos below depict Echo Company In Action.

December '98 Drill - CD Training

1. Learning the fundamentals of the use of the baton, SPC Van de Vyver and SPC Alverez are on the right facing the camera.

2. Force on force exercise in conjunction with Law Enforcement Officers who assisted us with our training.

3. Some Law Enforcement Officers, who assisted us with our training, Arresting a 'Rioter' after he is passed through the line. The rioter is SGT Adams, who was home on leave from the Army and had stopped in on drill weekend to check up on his old unit.

4. "Simulated 'Rioter' gets a lesson about respect!" from some Law Enforcement Officers who assisted us with our training. The rioter is SGT Adams, who was home on leave from the Army and had stopped in on drill weekend to check up on his old unit. PVT Cahill, SPC Roche and another Echo soldier look on.

November '98 Drill - Rappelling and Land Navigation

1. Echo soldiers loading onto UH-60 Blackhawks at the Watertown airport for an air-insertion to a LTA.

2. Echo soldiers, aboard UH-60 Blackhawks of the 147th Aviation, approaching the LZ at the LTA.

3. Echo soldiers secure the LZ after disembarking the UH-60 Blackhawks.

4. Echo soldiers conducting rappelling training at the LTA.

August '98 Drill - Weapons Qualification

1. 3rd Platoon on a foot march back to the Armory from the rifle range during August Drill.

2. Some of 3rd Platoon qualifying with their M-16s.

3. Some of Echo's M-9 gunners on the firing line.

July '98 Drill - MOUT Training

1. PVT Boese, SPC Roche, SGT Lindemann and SPC R. T. Johnson preparing to enter the Armory to search and clear it.

2. A squad prepares to search and clear the classroom.

March '98

1. SPC Van de Vyver, SPC Roche and SGT Lindemann conducting TOW training at a LTA during March Drill in 1998.
2. Several Echo Company NCOs and wives socializing at the BN recognition dinner in Fond du Lac in March '98. Clockwise from left: 1SG Hansen, SSG Bruss, SSG Witter, SGT Bushong and his girlfriend, the future Mrs. Switzer and SFC Switzer.

March '96 - Weyawega, Wisconsin Train Derailment

1. The 2/127th Infantry AO near Weyawega, during our assistance with the train derailment, on 8 March 96. (That is our Echo Company Guidon proudly waving in the background, behind the HMMWV.)

2. Another mission successfully completed on 8 March 96.

July '93 - NTC

1. Krasnovian Monster Rucks in the Mojave. The Echo Company personnel attached to B-2/127th at NTC preparing for OPFOR training in the Mojave Desert in July '93: (kneeling) SPC Safranski, SPC Wanke, SGT Bruss, SGT Heller; (standing) SPC Macdonald, SSG Witter, SPC Landwehr, SGT Adams, SGT Kaphingst, SSG Switzer.

2. Echo Company personnel attached to B-2/127th at NTC show off their OPFOR uniforms: (kneeling) SGT Adams, SSG Witter, SPC Safranski, SPC Landwehr; (standing) SSG Switzer, SGT Heller, SPC Macdonald, SPC Wanke, SGT Bruss, SGT Kaphingst.

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